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That finish included a third-place team showing in the foil division, keyed by top-15 performances from sophomore Tammy Knutsen (ninth), plus freshmen Emily Katz (11th) and Ellen Schulz (15th...
...women also succeeded in landing two fencers in the NCAA tournament--Katz in the foil and sophomore Elizabeth Aranow in the epee. Both battled to top-24 national finishes, with Katz landing 19th and Aranow 22nd...
Aranow's achievement was particularly impressive since she had switched from foil to epee at the beginning of the season, and the two events typically require different strategies and fencing skills...
...Decoratifs in 1925--whence the term (and style) Art Deco--the clothing he draped over the muscular lines of the Music Hall was surprisingly American. He commissioned paintings from America's leading modernists, designed hundreds of furniture pieces in novel forms and added new materials--tubular steel, Bakelite, aluminum foil--to the design vocabulary. Up to that point, the fashion in theater decoration might have been characterized as Italian Baroque Moorish Greek Renaissance Pagoda. Pick any two, and you had a movie palace. Deskey resisted Rothafel's bludgeoning insistence on "Portuguese Rococo" and instead dressed the place for Fred...
Restoring an interior that in its original condition had never been documented in color photography proved to be nearly an act of archaeology. Hardy tested armfuls of swatches for the mammoth curtain, assessed carpet samples from several continents, appraised scores of variations on the foil wallpaper used in the hall's public areas. Misguided renovations in years past didn't help. The turbid purple-and-brown pattern on the auditorium carpet got that way because the first replacement had been matched to the worn, filthy colors of the original. Hardy's research revealed that in 1932, before 100 million shoes...